Most of the people killed by a gunman in the Swedish city of Örebro last week had an immigrant background, police have said, after the prime minister paid tribute to the victims as “people who wanted to do something good, who wanted to contribute to a better society”.
Magdalena Andersson, the former prime minister and leader of the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, said in a television appearance alongside Kristersson on Sunday night that “words matter’ and that people with immigrant backgrounds who had been left feeling fearful and excluded by the mass shooting had been failed.
Most victims in Swedish mass shooting had immigrant background, say police Prime minister addresses nation to pay tribute to those ‘who wanted to contribute to a better society’.
Among those understood to have been killed in Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting, which took place at an adult education centre on Tuesday, were two Syrian men, both refugees, an Eritrean woman, an Iranian woman and a female teacher from Kurdistan.
Citing the words of the queen, Silvia, who last week during a visit to the school asked: “Where did the beautiful Sweden go?”, Kristersson said there was “only one Sweden”.
